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Books Quotes by Vikram Seth
- And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of…
- Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll…
- I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
- I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
- But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up…
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